Most of the time, the effort and the rewards don't come at the same time. Well, the critical rewards at least.
As Steven Pressfield teaches us, the REAL reward of our work is the work itself. As a true professional we never truly own the money, fame, or accolades of our work. We "lease" all that stuff and make payments on it each and every day with the hours of hard work we put in. I agree with Pressfield wholeheartedly when he says the only thing we have a right to is the work itself, not
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bumps in the road
Bumps (ramps) along the way
When starting to do something new, the seemingly obvious problem is never the real problem. It's always the extra step, the extra coordination, the extra red tape that becomes the last frontier to getting a project off the ground.
The reason is that when we venture into something, we always tell ourselves "the reason no one has done this before is because they don't want to deal with X." X in this case being the obvious roadblock that seemingly prevents competition from entering the fray.
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